Fog Installer - Distro check

I have a VM environment at home with clean snapshots for various Linux distributions that I use for testing. I’ll be testing the fog installer on various distributions for each of the release candidates, and for updated and newer distributions in the future to see if it installs or not according to steps in the Wiki, and if not the steps I took to correct it.

Each of these tests will be from a clean snapshot that is fully updated with all standard updates. All tests use the command ./installfog.sh -y to use all defaults and install unattended.

UPDATE
Installation tests have been automated. The daily results & logs are available to the public, see the link in my signature.

Ok, not a good way as package names differ from the other ones, e.g. rh-php71-php-fpm - horrible to maintain in the scripts. That said I think we need to add REMI repos at least for CentOS/RHEL 7! Adding those for Fedora might cause issues as we see that sometimes REMI is newer where php-json does not exist and the other day official Fedora repos might have newer PHP versions where php-json needs to be installed. So I tend to remove REMI repo addition at least from new Fedora installs (maybe even remove the repo on upgrades) and add php-json to the package list because Fedora 29, 28 and even 27 have PHP 7.x already.

I guess there are people out there with a proper license using FOG. But we can’t actually test our installer as it’s impossible to even get a package (version) listing online.

Once I’ve completed moving the install tests to AWS, we will have RHEL 7 in the tests. I’ve made a lot of progress. I have Terraform scripts that do a complete build-out of everything necessary for the tests to start running in an AWS account. This includes new Python scripts to replace what the old BASH scripts do at my house (interacting with the AWS API instead of interacting with libvirtd, as well as running the FOG installation tests). I’m still actively working on this, but it’s getting close to functional.

@Wayne-Workman I’ve done a manual test install and from what it looks like to me the issue is that php-json package is not being installed. Well that’s just the short story. I think (@Tom-Elliott might know more about this) that we used PHP from the REMI repos. But as Fedora 29 comes with PHP 7.2.12 in the official repositories (which is great) those are used for installation instead of the REMI PHP packages (seem to be on 7.2.12 as well). REMI had the JSON functions provided by a different package (maybe php-pecl-json*) which was installed via dependency I suppose. Now with Fedora 29 we need to add php-json explicitly to the package list.

I suppose this would cause trouble for other RedHat based systems so I am not sure of the best way to solve this. I’m in hope that we can remove external repositories form the installer altogether soon!! Debian stable is on PHP 7.0, CentOS 7 can go with PHP 7.0 using an official extra repo (see here), Ubuntu is on PHP 7.2, …!? What do you think?

Edit: As well I am wondering about RedHat installs. I guess there are people out there with a proper license using FOG. But we can’t actually test our installer as it’s impossible to even get a package (version) listing online. So if we go for PHP 7.x without external repos we wouldn’t care about RedHat much I suppose.

Also - these logs and the dashboard are in AWS s3 now. The bash scripts that makes this stuff is adding an extra / somewhere and s3 does not handle this like Apache. So when you click the links and it says “page not found” you just need to remove the extra slash.

Now Ubuntu 18 on the working branch. I really have no idea what is going wrong here. It seems to stop right in the middle of an apt… call. From the last lines of log output it looks like it. Possibly your test install VM got interrupted!!!

So as expected, the remi repo removed Fedora 29 beta, and added Fedora 29 release. Dev-branch and master are passing the installation tests, but working is failing which seems strange. Ubuntu 18 on working branch also failed - this test was run immediately after the Fedora 29 working test, so maybe it’s something with my vm host or internet at that time. It’s normal for this test system to have the occasional blip (it is what it is) so we’ll see what the tests say tomorrow.

So the issue with Fedora 29 is the Remi repo, they don’t seem to be caught up with the recent release. Their website still lists the beta version. I tried manually installing the remi repo for fedora 29 beta, doesn’t work. I don’t think there’s anything we can do until Remi Repo gets their end fixed. Most likely, when it’s fixed, everything will just start working because it appears the fog installer is creating the correct commands.

I’ve removed Fedora29-Beta, and setup a Fedora29 minimal server today, from the official release ISO. I’m pretty sure I remembered to do everything this time (like firewalld and selinux). We’ll see how it goes tomorrow morning.

I’ve added Fedora 29 Beta to the daily installation tests. I’ll remove it and add the official release as soon as that’s available. I’ve also updated all of my ‘clean’ snapshots with the latest patches.

You will notice that the link in my signature is different, the one there is the new one.
Long story short, I setup an email server for myself, which caused DNS & ssl problems to arrise with the fogtesting dashboard. So - I moved the site to a t2.nano in AWS. The same VM here at my house is still doing 100% of all testing, but when it gets done it does a quick rsync to the aws box to update the website with the new dashboard & files.